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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 7
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If Jerusalem repent she shall be preserved—The temple has become a den of robbers—The Lord rejects that generation of Jews for their idolatries—They offer their children in sacrifices.
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The</span> word that came to Jeremiah from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, saying,
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Stand in the gate of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, all <i>ye of</i> Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel, <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 1: 16 (16-20).">Amend</a> your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
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Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, The temple of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, The temple of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>are</i> these.
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For if ye <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR thoroughly.">throughly</a> amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
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<i>If</i> ye oppress not the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 22: 3.">stranger</a>, the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/7/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Charity.">fatherless</a>, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
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Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
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&#182; Behold, ye <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Trust Not in the Arm of Flesh.">trust</a> in <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/7/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 5: 31.">lying</a> words, that cannot profit.
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Will ye steal, <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Murder.">murder</a>, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/7/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Walking in Darkness.">walk</a> after other gods whom ye know not;
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And come and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 88: 134 (133-134).">stand</a> before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
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Is this <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Temple.">house</a>, which is called by my name, become a <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/7/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 21: 13; Luke 19: 46 (46-48).">den</a> of <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/7/11c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">robbers</a> in your eyes?  Behold, even I have seen <i>it,</i> saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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But go ye now unto my place which <i>was</i> in <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 18: 1; 1 Sam. 1: 3; Jer. 26: 6.">Shiloh</a>, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
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And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">answered</a> not;
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Therefore will I do unto <i>this</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 7: 22 (21-22); Ezek. 24: 21.">house</a>, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
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And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, <i>even</i> the whole seed of Ephraim.
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Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 11: 14; Mosiah 21: 15.">hear</a> thee.
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&#182; Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead <i>their</i> dough, to make cakes to <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE the fertility goddess, such as the Babylonian Ishtar.">the</a> queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
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Do they provoke me to anger?  saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: <i>do they</i> not <i>provoke</i> themselves <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/19a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB to their shame, or disgrace.">to</a> the confusion of their own faces?
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Therefore thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Behold, mine <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Indignation of.">anger</a> and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
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For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
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But this thing commanded I them, saying, <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Obedience.">Obey</a> my <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/7/23b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 1: 38.">voice</a>, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
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But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels <i>and</i> in the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 12: 18.">imagination</a> of their evil heart, and went <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/7/24b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">backward</a>, and not forward.
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Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/25a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Authority.">sent</a> unto you all my servants the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/7/25b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Prophets, Mission of.">prophets</a>, daily rising up early and sending <i>them:</i>
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Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hardheartedness.">hardened</a> their neck: they did <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/7/26b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 16: 12.">worse</a> than their fathers.
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Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
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But thou shalt say unto them, This <i>is</i> a nation that <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/28a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Teachable.">obeyeth</a> not the voice of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
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&#182; Cut off thine hair, <i>O Jerusalem,</i> and cast <i>it</i> away, and take up a <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 19: 1 (1, 14).">lamentation</a> on high places; for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
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For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: they have set their <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 4 (4, 7).">abominations</a> in the house which is called by my name, to <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/7/30b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sacrilege.">pollute</a> it.
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And they have built the high places of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 23: 10.">Tophet</a>, which <i>is</i> in the valley of the son of <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/7/31b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 18: 16.">Hinnom</a>, to <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/7/31c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">burn</a> their sons and their daughters in the <sup>d</sup><a href="jer/7/31d" mark="d" type="A" title="Lev. 18: 21; Deut. 12: 31; Deut. 18: 10.">fire</a>; which I commanded <i>them</i> not, neither came it into my heart.
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&#182; Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 9: 22; Jer. 19: 7; Ether 9: 34.">carcases</a> of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray <i>them</i> away.
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Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/7/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 16: 9; Jer. 25: 10; Hosea 2: 11.">mirth</a>, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/7/34b" mark="b" type="A" title="Rev. 18: 23 (22-24).">voice</a> of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/7/34c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 27: 17; Jer. 44: 2.">desolate</a>.
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